Intersectional Pay Gaps at TfL

David Kurten: What is the average pay at TfL of white men, black men, Asian men, men of other ethnic minorities, white women, black women, Asian women and women of other ethnic minorities?

The Mayor: Transport for London (TfL) regularly publishes its Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap reports and is committed to becoming a more diverse organisation. In line with these reports TfL has calculated the median and mean hourly rate of pay for each of the eight groups specified below:
Median Hourly Pay
Mean Hourly Pay
White Male
£29.01
£28.70
Black Male
£26.53
£25.57
Asian Male
£26.98
£25.95
Other Ethnic Group Male
£26.41
£26.05
White Female
£25.06
£26.16
Black Female
£21.45
£23.26
Asian Female
£22.09
£23.47
Other Ethnic Group Female
£21.19
£23.91
Recent recruitment campaigns at TfL have been the most diverse to date and TfL has been successful in attracting more women to the organisation. However, many of the new female starters to join have done so at entry level positions and pay. This has had the effect of reducing the mean and median average pay for TfL’s female employees, widening the pay gaps in 2018. Women have also been more likely to apply for Customer Service roles, which pay less, than Train Operators roles for example.
TfL, as with other members of the GLA family, already publishes information on ethnicity and gender pay gaps. The data on intersectionality that you requested was not previously calculated due to significant gaps in the demographic information that TfL holds. Disclosure campaigns are planned for 2019/20 to improve the data so that intersectionality analysis can be included in future pay gap reporting.

Intersectionality at TfL

David Kurten: How many staff working at TfL are white men, black men, Asian men, men of other ethnic minorities, white women, black women, Asian women and women of other ethnic minorities?

The Mayor: Of the 27,399 employees held on Transport for London’s central people HR System at the 31 March 2018, 20,263 had a declared ethnicity. These 20,263 employees are split as per the above groups in the below:
White Men – 10,650
Black Men – 2,487
Asian Men – 2,001
Men of other ethnic minority - 659
White Women – 2,655
Black Women – 1,075
Asian Women - 479
Women of other ethnic minority – 257